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The President of the Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, stated that in the last two years, he has not had a single constructive conversation with his Bulgarian colleague, Rumen Radev.

NATO on Wednesday declined to comment on claims by North Macedonia's leader that the country's NATO commitments had got in the way of timely purchases of COVID vaccines.

Public opinion in North Macedonia is divided over the Prespes agreement with Greece, according to a recent survey in the neighboring country.

More specifically, the poll, conducted on behalf of the Sitel TV channel, showed that 44.6 percent said they felt positively about the accord against 45.6 percent who said they had negative feelings about it.

FYROM (Macedonian) Assembly President Talat Xhaferi expects the opposition VMRO-DPMNE to withdraw more than 35,000 amendments that it submitted to the Bill on Language.

Earlier this month, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov refused to sign this bill, that would make Albanian the country's second official language, into law, and sent it back to parliament.

Skopje raised new obstacles to a solution to the name dispute with Athens after its chief negotiator said on Wednesday in New York that the proposal submitted by United Nations special mediator Matthew Nimetz was "far from dignified." 

Skopje raised new obstacles to a solution to the name dispute with Athens after its chief negotiator said on Wednesday in New York that the proposal submitted by United Nations special mediator Matthew Nimetz was "far from dignified." 

The Special Prosecution, SJO, which is tasked with probing high-level wrongdoing in Macedonia, launched the four new investigations at a press conference on Thursday.

The negotiating team from the ruling VMRO DPMNE party of embattled Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski left the EU-sponsored talks on Tuesday after the opposition Social Democrats' leader Zoran Zaev described most of the mainstream media as his enemies.

Prime Minister Gruevski said that at Tuesday's marathon talks in Skopje mediated by EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn, he accepted snap polls in order "to end the agony in which the opposition has put Macedonia".

Mainstream TV broadcasters and newspapers have hotly denied the findings of a research paper, "Public Money in Media Space", by the Journalists' Association, ZNM, which claims the government spent 7 million euro on advertisements in only three months in 2014.